An iron law of the universe is the opposite law of liberalism, which states that whatever the left is saying, assume the opposite and you will get close to the truth. It is not a perfect rule in that the opposite is obvious or correct. It is just a good place to start when trying to figure out what they are doing. Projection plays a central role in the interior life of the progressive hive mind, so they inevitably accuse the enemies of the hive of doing what the hive is doing or has done.
An old example comes from the heady days of the Tea Party, which was a genuine populist and grassroots response to the cultural revolution. Normal, middle-class people started to organize against the Obama administration, but also the sissies of conservatism who were hiding under their beds at the time. Suddenly, people were turning up to protest and fight back against the gathering madness. It was a foreshadowing of what would come in 2016.
The response by the left was to accuse these people of being part of a conspiracy organized by the enemies of history. Nancy Pelosi famously said it was not a grassroots movement, but an AstroTurf movement. For those who do not know, AstroTurf is a genericized brand name or proprietary eponym for fake grass. Of course, what was true at the time and true to this day is the “grassroots” support of the left was bought and paid for by tax dollars laundered through the Blob.
It was one of those moments that revealed something about the sorts of people who end up in left-wing social movements. They always assume that the enemies of the hive operate as they do and will act like they would if given the chance. It is why they were sure Trump would trample your civil rights after he won in 2016. They knew that if they were in his position, that is what they would do. After the color revolution that toppled Trump and installed Biden, it is exactly what they did.
Now that Trump is back, we see the opposite rule kicking in as part of their coping strategy and effort to organize a response. The crazies are now free speech warriors, claiming Trump is going to start censoring people online. The very same people who chanted “freedom of speech is not freedom of reach” as anyone with a sober thought in their head was evicted from Twitter are now carrying on as if they are Ann Frank, hiding in the attic from the MAGA police.
This story about how a handful of zombies turned up to yell at a Congressman is framed as a populist rebellion. These are people made angry by their television, so they show up on command at this event to be angry. A defining feature of these old, white progressives is they have no idea why they are angry. The person on their television is angry, so they are angry. They are the sort that started saying “keev” the weekend the war in Ukraine started, as if they always said it that way.
Of course, nothing about this is on the level. That is the great lesson of the populist rebellion that started with the Tea Party. Our politics have been entirely fake for decades, manufactured and controlled using government money. These efforts to repeat what worked in the past affirm it. Our politics for the last several decades have been pretty close to the opposite of what was beamed to us. “Our democracy” was absolute party control.
All ideologies rely on lies to fill the gap between their vision of the moral society and the reality of the human condition. This habit explains the violence that comes when the ideologues gain control. The lies are replaced by a program to fill the gap between ideology and reality. That gap is always filled with corpses, but it is never completely filled, so the lies return as the cost-effective option. In time, they become so comfortable with the lies that lying is the solution to everything.
We are seeing this in the “resistance” being rolled out in the media. It is not connected with reality but dreamed up by the same people who claimed they were defending democracy when they were harassing people for Facebook posts. The same narrative makers who swore all their failed schemes were working right up until it was obvious that they were not working are now busy imagining a scenario in which they are carried back to power on the shoulders of the people.
Things like the opposite rule are part of the essential appeal of ideology, which is an escape from reality. This is what ideology inherits from Christianity. The losers drawn to the new religion spreading around the Roman Empire were attracted to the promise of escape from this life. If they followed this new religion, they would one day stand shoulder to shoulder with the great men of this age in the sight of God. Ideology says the same thing but stops at the bit about God.
Libertarians imagine that one day they will be yeoman farmers, totally self-sufficient and liberated like the rich guys they admire. The antifascist imagines herself as a stunning and brave member of the committee, as respected as the men who never pay much attention to her. The conservative believes he will one day be rich like Donald Trump, but classy like Bill Buckley. The fascist imagines himself in a snappy uniform in charge of men, instead of a loser playing video games all day.
This is what brings us back to the opposite rule of liberalism. The last ideology, like all ideology, requires the suspension of disbelief. Accusing the bad guys of doing what you have done or are currently doing is a way to escape the reality of politics. It is not a fight for power, but a great crusade between white hats and black hats. To think otherwise is to be back in the reality from which you are trying to escape. The “resistance” to Trump are not losers, but the heroes of a story they are now writing.
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The same people who are sobbing about government workers being fired spent years advocating for people like me who refused the covid shot to be fired. They almost managed to do it. I have no sympathy for any of these people.
Nor did they care when Bill Clinton was the one doing the firing. Clinton fired 400,000 federal employees.
Many people suffer from this. Both left and right. Trumps tax cuts in his first term and probably this term will be like covid checks. The corporations will get the lion share of the stimulus and the people will get crumbs.
The average Republican voter has had his mind warped by decades of conservative grifters chanting “lower taxes!!!”
Every Republican Congress raises spending, increases the “debt ceiling” and cares nothing of so-called fiscal responsibility when they have the power.
Taxes need to go up on everyone from the wealthy to the working class. Granted, we will likely never get a (real) budget surplus or pay down the debt, but we should at least pretend were doing it. The Japs, Chinese, Saudis, the ECB, the BOE, these people all want their money.
Downvotes notwithstanding, you’re right. Up to now they have mostly just talked about getting federal spending under control, while actually cutting taxes as if they had. Interest payments increasingly eat up the budget. Weimar-level inflation represents an easy way out. Tax rates should be the least of our worries.
They also didn’t care when Clinton sent cops armed with machine guns to deport screaming children at gunpoint to communist Cuba. One can only imagine the outcry if Trump’s people were doing this:
Jim Goldman and Elian Gonzalez – Elián González – Wikipedia
I’m beginning to like Bill Clinton! Shame he was married to that harpy.
Clinton was the result of the party trying to get itself righted after 12 years in the wilderness. Unfortunately, they picked a guy who was utterly corrupt and his wife utterly criminal. These people stole close to $200,000 in furniture from the WH in early 2001 and never returned nor paid for most of it. The policies were a response to the Contract with America. We were a different country then. The Clinton’s normalized criminality in office. The popularized it, in fact. We as a nation never recovered. Trump did the thing Ross Perot ought to have done: run for… Read more »
That was a tough call. The direct blood line was Elian’s father in Cuba. I was torn myself. It really is a conservative thing to return a direct descendant. Isn’t one of the things we hear tirelessly is how a father’s right to his children are ignored by the courts here in the feminist kingdom of the USA?
Yeah, but they could have reversed that and made it a case to have the father liberated from Cuba. That was always my beef with it. They just accepted the words of a guy held hostage in Cuba. Even if the father believed it, his wishes should have been assumed to be under the threat of death by the Castro’s. We could have done a prisoner exchange type thing and freed the father to come to Miami instead. If he gets here, stays a few weeks, and decides to return to Cooba with his son, the whole thing would have… Read more »
I was watching some clip of a young hussy sobbing about losing her government job. “This is my dream job and it’s being taken away by an administration that doesn’t care about science!!!” My amusement could not be overstated. Who would have thought that a lifetime of being sheltered from reality might lead to this type of hysterical behavior. It may sound harsh, but hardship and suffering would do people like her a lot of good.
Pam Hyde: The same people who are sobbing about government workers being fired spent years advocating for people like me who refused the covid shot to be fired. HALF of all women in their 30s are now suffering from peri-menopause. Perimenopause symptoms, severity, and healthcare seeking in women in the US Published: 25 February 2025 https://www.nature.com/articles/s44294-025-0d0061-3 That was published YESTERDAY, in the Journal, NATURE. Gee, I wonder what could have happened in the last four or five years that might have caused Perimenopause in what otherwise should have been women at the very peak of their fertility? Gosh, I can’t… Read more »
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hokkoda: “Link doesn’t work”
Okay, the smart asses at “Nature” are now forbidding deep links to both the HTML article and to the PDF file.
There’s a special place in hell for smart asses who obstruct deep links.
Anyway, let’s try an indirect link to the story; we’ll travel through TinyURL and Bing:
https://tinyurl.com/yc2xjw7u
Once you pass through that TinyURL, and get to the Bing links, you can then click into the “Nature” article itself, and save a copy of both the HTML and PDF versions of the “Nature” story.
Thanks!
Not sure I agree with your interpretation. 30+ is the tail end of fertility in women. The closer to 40 the more difficult pregnancy gets and birth defects like Downs increase in probability. Peak is probably more like 18-28 years old. I don’t see any reference in the study indicating that the rates are better or worse. They even say that 90% of women report being seen for perimenopause in these younger age brackets.
“women in their 30s”
“the very peak of their fertility”
Um, no, not by any measure.
Yeah it’s like 13.
Vizzini: “Um, no, not by any measure.“
Classically, as recently as a century ago, our women had very strong fertility, and bore multiple children well into their late 40s.
But then we got (((Birth Control Pills))).
A bish who isn’t a total slut shouldn’t have any trouble whatsoever pushing out four or five children in her thirties.
But if she started on BCPs in her early teens, then all bets are off the table.
Don’t know about fertility, but supposedly the female libido is strongest at around the age of 36. For males, it’s 18.
A woman’s fertility peaks between her late teens to late-20s after which it starts to decline.
My daughter did lose her surgical tech job for refusing the vax. We will never forgive.
Between election and swearing-in, the Grrls screamed bloody murder: Orangester will hunt us all down and lock us up! This, as you say, reflects their souls, displaying what they’d like to do to you and me, and in fact what they did after J6; the Left sees the Right as the hated enemy, but the Right sees the Left as misguided. Oh noes! We’re being hunted! is sure to push the Protection Button in millions of U.S. men. The result is the Right never punishes the Left for its criminal and totalitarian conduct. Like Trump, on election night 2016, pardoning… Read more »
Unless there are thousands(10s of thousands?, 100s of thousands?) arrests, trials and convictions nothing of consequence will change. Given that majority of the prosecutors, law enforcement, and judiciary went along with and/or participated in the whole scam and are still in place who will enforce “the Law”.
Doesn’t matter anyway; the corruption is both total *and* terminal. The patient will *not* recover. The country will not continue to exist in its present configuration. Ten years MAX; almost certainly less. A national divorce is baked into the cake. And it won’t be the first. “That which hath been will be again, and there is no new thing under the sun.”
We should have cut the South loose back in the day. Just think of how much nicer our society would be without having to deal with the black mess they created. We would effectively be Canada right now. No angry black population and not a care in the world.
As Europe and Canada have shown, in the absence of negros, some will be imported.
Right, but they have no excuse to be angry like they are here.
Who says they need an excuse?
“Right, but they have no excuse to be angry like they are here.”
Are you being sarcastic, or trying your hand at irony?
Your premise, if genuine, is that blacks are the way they are either because of something Whites do TO them, or something Whites fail to do FOR them.
But the truth is otherwise.
“As Europe and Canada have shown, in the absence of negros, some will be imported.”
They (foolishly) did that so they could show that they were kinder and more generous than the hated US, that if blacks were liberated from Sheriff Rainey and Bull Connor they would be just like us, except better.
Oops.
TempoNick: “We should have cut the South loose back in the day. Just think of how much nicer our society would be without having to deal with the black mess they created.“
That “Black Mess” was created by the jews & Unitardians & Quakers which controlled the trans-Atlantic Chattel Slave trade.
The “South” was a completely innocent victim of jewish/Unitardian/Quaker perfidy.
Feel free to go home if America is all too stinky for you.
And also, the average Southerner didn’t import blacks and didn’t want them. That would be Jews and the first globalists in wannabe English/French aristocrats.
Also, I have Canadian relatives. It’s not utopia up there.
It may have to be a divorce Italian style 😎
Perhaps so. But remember, the Left operates by herd dynamics. The instantaneous embrace of Today’s Religion is their strength, but also their weakness. A purge of Leftist leaders — not just political but media, entertainment, so forth — might well stampede the Herd from fear, for that’s their primary motivator, with social status running a close second. Lefties are hall-monitor dictators and cowards, and will cave. After that, they need some type of de-programming to wipe 16 years of Prog indoctrination outta their noggins. Re-purpose the schools to that task after outlawing the NEA and AFT. I do not believe… Read more »
Now yer talkin! The question really does become, “how do we get the girlbosses back out of power,” doesn’t it? We could paint a version of UBI- getting paid for staying out of the rat race (“working”)- in other words, womanhood as it used to be- as the New Liberation. The cost would be far less than make-work jobs, and it would address women’s fears (being stranded) and needs (such as having to pay for childcare or public schooling so she can work/pay taxes). Gasp! Economic incentives/paying women to get/stay married, instead of rewarding them for divorce or singlehood! Competent… Read more »
‘The question really does become, “how do we get the girlbosses back out of power,” doesn’t it?’
Yes, it does. Gotta get rid of Girlboss Amerika if the nation expects to thrive and survive. They are the heart of the Left.
For one thing, the nation would have to incentivize marriage, as you point out.
Likewise, it must de-incentivize the parents of daughters to send their princesses to college and career. The opposition, of course, would be huge because it would come from both Lefties and Righties. But it could be done.
“The result is the Right never punishes the Left for its criminal and totalitarian conduct.”
This! Trump can only lose if he gives up and “makes nice”. If he tries and fails, there is always tomorrow. If he gives up, there is no tomorrow. Whatever one thinks of Trump, he rides a sea change in public opinion.
Yes, he must strike while the iron is hot. Opportunities like this come along almost never.
Julius Caeser’s penchant for magnanimity toward Roman political opponents worked well for him until it didn’t one mid-March. He didn’t survive his post Rubicon reality check. Trump narrowly survived his Ides and had eight years of state sponsored persecutions. He crosses the Rubicon now I think. He is about legacy. He survived the lawfare and summer bullet. I think perhaps gone is the art of the deal guy prepared to let bygones be bygone. I don’t know if he succeeds but it seems he learned the lesson Caesar didn’t get the chance to.
The Right has its own playbook. While leftists shriek and project, the ‘right’ is telling White people that Happy Days Are Here Again. Don’t worry about anti-White hatred and replacement; an EO has said no more DEI in fedgov so BigCorp will stop hiring H-1bs, stop the interracial advertising, and hire you! Except, that’s not happening. Just like Reagan didn’t cut government spending and didn’t stop immigration. Chris Rufo is overjoyed that soon we’ll all be miscegenated tan/brown, just like his hapa kids, so White guys need to suck it up and go work at Panda Express. This joyous celebration… Read more »
I see many on our side so optimistic. Maybe I’ve been disappointed too many times, but I don’t feel that optimism.
We get inspiring words from Homan about deportations, but then I see articles that say that the number of deportations is lower than under Biden. Who can tell?
Musk tells us he is slashing billions but maybe he’s just pushing hype like he did with electric trucks.
Only time will tell. I’d like to celebrate.
One victory is exposing all of the absurd spending of USAID, which no one disputes.
I envision politicians and wealthy elites scrambling for the last night plane out of Casablanca… justice hot on their trail. However, you are likely correct Madam. I am so thoroughly descended from American founding stock as to be a hopelessly hopeful retard.
Sadly, must concur.
The poison is in deep, very deep, and getting deeper with each passing academic semester and ‘immigrant’. It’ll hurt to remove the dart, but the alternative is slow and painful death.
16 years ago we got the first black president and all the Progress! he represented. 8 years ago we got a reaction that got suppressed. This year that suppression is cracking. Things are trending in a different direction. It takes time, is all.
This is indeed a problem but I think most men are less hesitant about punishing other people’s daughters – especially when they’re 40+ year old blue haired hags. No normal man will weep over Nancy Pelosi dangling from a lamp post, nor for the fat HR manager at his workplace. Hard to imagine the needful will be done, but I’ve seen a lot of things happen the last few weeks I thought were impossible. We’ll see. Much could be accomplished by severely punishing a few of the very worst. Not many women would have to be hanged before the rest… Read more »
‘Much could be accomplished by severely punishing a few of the very worst.’
Same point I also made elsewhere on this thread.
Decade after decade, the Left identifies its chief enemies as white Christian males. Ok, that tells me this is the demographic they fear. Therefore, white Christian males are the core of your holy army, for even your enemies identify them as such.
Gee, who else sees its chief enemies as white Christian males?
You know, our women didn’t used to.
When the Jews control mass media, that’s what we get unfortunately. Lots of men are very fond of their boobtube. It’s easier to blame da wahymen than ask how the women stopped having loyalty to their fathers, brothers, husbands, and sons.
You’re right, they didn’t. I lived through an America in which women as a collective certainly did not hate WCM. But feminism changed all that, and I watched that go down too.
The men must begin by discipling themselves. I agree that a few select female targets will cause the rest to fall in line. But unfortunately much of what passes on this board is not particularly serious in it’s thoughts about gender issues. Female “empowerment” only happens in the vacuum of male irresponsibility and indifference.
“The result is the Right never punishes the Left for its criminal and totalitarian conduct.”
That’s because there is no “Right.”
To quote Supertramp, alas, “Right, quite right, you’re bloody well right.”
Anything approximating a “Right” is unlawful in the United States. It is something that should somewhat temper the criticism of Britain and Europe arresting people over Facebook posts.
You bet, white women invented Leftism, it’s not like anybody was exploiting their foibles, fears, or desires.
Certainly they had, and have, cultural manipulators which include the intel agencies and the elite families like the Rockefellers.
But women made their own decisions to rebel against God and nature itself. Nobody held a gun to their heads; indeed, as I witnessed, they were quite willing to force males out of education and employment, and take those slots for themelves (under legally mandated coercion, no less).
Uh uh, baby. Not getting offa the hook with me.
It sure feels like, this week, the leftists found their footing and are back on the offensive. Their attacks are basically the same as they were in 2017. They’re trying to turn Elon Musk into Sean Spicer. The Free World (led by Macron this time) is uniting against Trump. Brave feds are resisting by not sending a requested email. Trump is angry that he keeps losing and just wants to watch the gorilla channel and go to bed. John Leibowitz and Jon Oliver are Speaking Truth to Power in a stunning fashion. Of course the world isn’t what it was… Read more »
Normies seem to broadly support what Trump is doing in a way they did not in 2017. The necessity of action on the federal leviathan, immigration, the MIC, etc. is very obvious. Yeah, because now it’s obvious it’s OUR MONEY getting wasted by a completely unresponsive bureaucracy on crap nobody wants or needs. People are struggling in an economy stuffed full of inflated dollars and don’t want to hear abut USAID sending $50 Million to some Backwaterstan country for queer interpretive dance programs and then being arrogantly told “Well it’s just a drop in the bucket.” Screw. You. People are… Read more »
Indeed, but only part of our money is being wasted…most of it is simply being stolen or handed out to insiders (like Pelosi getting 14 million for her vineyard) or anti-American terrorists, governments, media like the BBC, Public Broadcasting and CNN, and NGO’s…The US might well have a budget surplus if all of that theft and graft were eliminated…
“…only part of our money is being wasted…most of it is simply being stolen or handed out to insiders…” Bingo! Does anyone really believe $50M for “queer interpretive dance” is a thing? It’s just a moniker to label a cut of the “swag” going to provide some payoff to who knows whom? It’s not misdirected funds. It’s money being stolen and washed. Pure theft. Such a scheme is nothing new. We see such all the time in the private sector where some company’s accountant embezzles company funds. Hell we had here, in AZ, an *entire* county where the treasurer stole… Read more »
She cried when Kamala lost. I wonder if there’s more to it than that. Maybe she knows her time is up.
For that matter, the Obama’s getting a divorce? I wonder if there’s more to that story as well. Like, you know, Michelle wouldn’t run to save Barry from the noose? We can only dream.
A rare hatepoast from mmack. Me likey!
Normie’s opinion on any subject is neither sought or desired. They (we) are completely irrelevant. Factions of the ruling elite want this to happen and that is why it is happening.
What the hell is normie going to do about anything? Vote harder? The leviathan has been growing non-stop for 80 years across every administration since FDR regardless of the congressional makeup or who was President. The only time normie ever gets part of what he wants is when normie and the elite’s desires align.
There is a lot of wisdom in what you say. I’ve only seen it mention occasionally since Trump won in november. Stated perhaps in different words there is likely a faction of the plutocracy that became alarmed by the lunacy of the last four or more years. Thus they threw in with Trump hoping to arrest the damage. I wish the effort great success of course, as probably do all readers here. Whether and to what degree they are successful remains to be seen.
“The only time normie ever gets part of what he wants is when normie and the elite’s desires align.” This is true in all times and places and of all forms of government. “Our democracy” was only just a way to let the oligarchs walk down the street in peace while the plebs blamed each other for problems. Pretending the plebs had power when consent could be manufactured was pretty ideal from the POV. That said, the plebs don’t always want the correct things. Mobs are not known for the their intelligent, thoughtful decisions. However, we’re living in a time… Read more »
“People are already taxed to the gills and to find out that if a private citizen or firm did exactly what the government did with USAID money we’d be facing a RICO suit for money laundering ain’t gonna sit too well, especially when it comes out as we pull our tax forms and receipts together.”
May I disagree? IMO, the *vast* majority of the population–taxpayers or not–are entirely unaware of any of this stuff and too stupid to understand it if they were.
I would add another item to your final list: put people responsible in jail and on the gallows. Without deterrence this sort of behavior will just come back after Trump is gone.
They’re yelling but there’s nothing behind it. Their behavior during Covid was recent enough that they have to leave huge gaps in their complaints. Formally these gaps would be filled in with regime nonsense but with megaphone gone they’re left with all carrot and no stick, and the carrot is old and nasty.
Shitlibs were always going to strike back in a more organized way.
But on the only issues that really matter: the Squatamlen invasion, DOGE and ending the Rothschild wars, voters are still strongly in support of Trump.
As long as he doesn’t blink, Trump should get victories on all 3 fronts, regardless of what the shrieking harridans on MSNBC have to say abou it
I haven’t seem a lot of talk on immigration. It’s become so toxic especially after the last four years, it’s like they finally came to their senses and realized that Americans want these people out, no ifs ands or buts. The focus definitely is on DOGE, because DOGE has a guy on the toop they can target and isolate (as I mentioned, they are trying to turn him into an idiot buffoon like Sean Spicer). After that is Ukraine, portraying Zelenskyyyyyyyyyyyyy as a superhero while Europe is stepping up to fill the void.
Problem is that NATO, sans USA, could not even wipe their ass without US toilet paper. All this nonsense from Macron is just that. Trump does, or should do, what he wants, signs what is needed and Macron and company will/can do nothing. Should they decide to take up station in Ukraine, Putin will—as he has since the war began—consider them belligerents and lawful targets of war. In any event, the USA is out of there wrt military support and Russia can sweep up the rest.
As is said, “The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on”.
Macron is just posturing for the media. They are already know where Trump is going.
Just as an interesting aside, I was watching the Tucker Carlson interview with Saudi Arabian Prince Alaweed. Surprisingly, he is very bullish on Trump and on America’s prospects in general. It’s worth a listen.
With a name like Alaweed, he should be guvner of Colorado…
There is a story floating around that the mercenary entrepreneur Erik Prinz has proposed a plan to the Trump administration to fast track the mass expulsion of millions of illegal aliens using planes and buses on a massive scale. The suggested cost of this plan is $25 billion. The current pace of expulsions will likely rid us of the illegals sometime in the next century, so a plan like Prinz’s is likely the only way to make a significant dent in the illegal population any time soon.
Freddie Prinze disapproves of this plan!
I bet the DOGE business, if allowed to play out, will have a larger effect on immigration than any direct policy, by incentivizing people to leave.
I’m sure some percentage of illegals were trafficked here and don’t have the means to leave— they would end up being the focus of policy. I doubt it would cost $25b.
If that story is true, it would amount to another MIC grift. Lol amazing, this system!
Just today I read that the USDA is moving to cancel EBTl/SNAP of illegal aliens. No word on how many, I imagine it’s a lot. One wonders why this wasn’t done in the first Trump administration. One wonders how this practice was allowed to begin in the first place.
This may be correct but it strikes me as increasingly impotent rage. Also, if they get high on their own supply, for the first time I think they might get crushed.
They are now shaking down the EU governments to step in the shoes of USAID.
Mycale: “It sure feels like, this week, the leftists found their footing and are back on the offensive.”
OTOH, (((Michelle Trachtenberg))) just kicked the bucket.
“A year before her death, Trachtenberg had responded to comments on Instagram about her health, her weight loss and eyes which appeared to be jaundiced.”
I guess she didn’t receive the Kosher version of the v@xxine.
David Barnea is gonna get an earful of invective from the Council of the Sanhedrin.
The poisoned doses were for the GOYIM, you idiot, not for the CHOSEN!!!
I’m pretty sure Bourbon is back.
She apparently died of complications from a liver transplant. Young women generally don’t need new livers unless they cooked theirs with drugs. One of the channels I listened to suggested liver damage from eating disorders, which is possible. However, heavy drug use tends to keep people thin too.
It’s not always the vax, as much fun as that would be.
Bro.
Don’t kid yourself.
It was the v@xx.
She’s a she, not a bro. And as flat-chested as that dame looks to have been, I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if anorexia or bulemia was the problem.
The use of Musk in this way is delicious, but structurally unsound. He is successful BECAUSE he lacks the temperament of a cabinet minister, he is loyal to Trump because of the excitement of the role he has been granted, but he will put his foot wrong soon. In fact, he has done so already, and in politics unlike business your enemies can’t be turned back by success following failure.
Imagine if Obama had put Reverend Wright in as grand vizier. We would not have stood for it. Musk needs to work fast, his shelf life won’t be long.
I’m guessing the average consumer/voter has experienced at least 50% inflation since the Tea Party. The bleating of the media faux “resistance” doesn’t resonate now as folks hunker down at the kitchen table over their eye-popping monthly bills. The ratings, such as they are, contain at least directional truth – look at all the CNN/MSNBC firings. The Washington Post Op/Ed editor resigned yesterday rather than follow Bezos’ directive for more balance. The dogs, whipped by inflation, just aren’t consuming the media “dog food” anymore and the Oligarchs realize it. You just cannot gaslight people after all this inflation.
More then 50%. Whatever the CPI states, i’d add at least 2 or 3% to it. Officially we’ve had 30% inflation since 2020, and all the years since 2008 it was around 1 or 2%. They saw the turmoil high inflation created in the 70’s and early 80’s and then decided why tell the truth when you can lie and save money on social security payments. Boskin commission i believe it was.
It’s actually around double the CPI. There’s a great website called shadow stats that tracks the inflation numbers using the old (more accurate) CPI calculation method (pre Boskin commission in 1995) and compares it to the “new and improved” CPI.
It’s always easier to change the measurement scale than to actually change the numbers. They’ve been doing that since I was a boy—and that’s only what they officially announce under some rubric of “improvement”. Government economists are worse than whores.
This is a great point. There was a great article in, of all places, Politico recently that was talking about the farce of the unemployment numbers (amongst other economic measurements). It was by a former comptroller of the currency, titled “the voters were right about the economy, the numbers were wrong.” WELL worth the read. Some of the numbers on there are stunning, even to pessimistic dissidents. The biggest that stuck out to me was the unemployment number. Now we all know the U-3 is BS, but by his estimation, if you included all the groups that should be included… Read more »
There is no official gov stat for those who have “dropped out” of the “workforce,” but when you figure them in, plus those who are “employed” in the underground economy, I can believe 23%. Easily.
Tea Party never stood a chance. It was called nazis, racists, and bigots by the leftist media, in a preview of what was to come as the Great Awokening enveloped our society immediately after. They of course acted like scared boomers always do when called names by their enemies. Then, the conservacuck right swooped in to co-opt it, which it did successfully. Wikipedia has a good rundown of the regime’s side of the story on this. But still I read it and think of how far we have come…
Ah, yes, the Tea Party! Brings back memories! I was an infuriating thorn in the side of my local Tea Party by constantly bringing up the fact that this was a white people’s movement. Of course they fell all over themselves trying to insist they had a “large tent” and minorities were welcome, but I never saw any at the meetings, which I attended after putting National Alliance literature under the windshield wipers of every car in the parking lot. They threw hissies over this stunt!
“Libertarians imagine that one day they will be yeoman farmers, totally self-sufficient and liberated like the rich guys they admire. The antifascist imagines herself as a stunning and brave member of the committee, as respected as the men who never pay much attention to her. The conservative believes he will one day be rich like Donald Trump, but classy like Bill Buckley. The fascist imagines himself in a snappy uniform in charge of men, instead of a loser playing video games all day.”
Steinbeck talked about temporarily embarrassed millionaires, but they don’t hold a candle to the temporarily embarrassed nomenklatura.
That is a great comparison. I shall steal it and call it my own.
It’s a standard view of /ourguys/, too, as examples of “elite overproduction.” The left/regime/blob (whatever you like) is a closed social circle that excludes almost all whom meritocracy would admit, and those who feel most unjustly excluded—most barely excluded—are crippled by longing for its embrace. Sailer and Hanania come to mind. If only Stalin knew how clever I am… Actually, great as he is, he must! So I’ll speak always as if into the ear of the throne… Relevant to the news, they’re both great admirers of alpha trannies, supposedly now getting mass fired from NSA/etc. Hanania held it up… Read more »
Sailer is a 1980’s conservative and Banania is a millennial goofball and internet troll.
Sailer and Hanania are freelancers who want to be picked up and used as controlled opposition/regime enforcers. It’s a pathetic thing to watch and the impulse deserves a name better than wannabe controlled opposition/regime enforcers. I’m coming up empty, though.
It seems to have been lost in the shuffle, but Hanania got paid by USAID.
hahahaha….my first time learning that. His audition paid off!
It is definitely true that the left always projects. But they end up projecting more for their masters than for themselves they believe everything they are told to believe and get likes for from fellow travelers on social media. We are all the heroes of our own story, no one more so than a female leftist. The white leftist is desperate to be seen as a good, smart person. A primary requirement is to immediately repeat whatever you are told to say. Since they are superior beings, the can’t admit that they are spouting lies or projecting so they convince… Read more »
The fascist imagines himself in a snappy uniform in charge of men, instead of a loser playing video games all day.
Ouch Zman, that hurt!
He forgot the other type: the Dissident Wordcel. He imagines his work being lauded in the future; perhaps a statue erected, instead of bitching into the virtual void.
There is a real dichotomy to online dissident discourse. On the one hand, it gets our message out more widely than before. On the other, it diverts our energy from what could often be more effective “meat space” organizing. These things are true simultaneously.
Heh heh. I thought I heard the bawl of an ox being gored.
A fine essay, as usual (and thus, easily taken for granted). In an age where annoying terminology increases and abounds seemingly without constraint, “democracy” is my pick for most annoying term. For one, there ain’t no democracy. All governments of any notable size are oligarchies. Human beings have simply never figured out how to mass-organize in any other fashion. To pretend that power is with the common rabble is utterly silly. And what is American-style so-called democracy in practice? Organized bribery. Big-moneyed interests own all the so-called “representatives” of democracy. While such an arrangement in its current U.S. form may… Read more »
Good post. But whether Our Democracy is preferable to some form of tyranny is very much debatable.
That all depends on whose tyranny it is, doesn’t it
Zackly. Tyranny is neither implicitly inferior or superior to democracy. The nature of the specific tyranny spells all the difference.
In Plato’s Republic, democracies naturally degrade into tyrannies. Someone in control without votes is not automatically tyrannical. A tyranny is rule that is destructive to the people and the state as whole.
“The nature of the specific tyranny spells all the difference.”
In which respect it is rather like “freedom”. Freedom describes a contingency – Of “freedom” we ask, “OK Freedom. Freedom to do what?”
I mean, the Hutu and the Khmer Rouge won THEIR freedom, didn’t they?
I suppose it would depend on the specific tyranny. Look, I’m not the type of fella who would trust the people allegedly in charge even if they claimed to be entirely on my side. I will be forever leery of granting my best friend a degree of power that I wouldn’t want my worst enemy to end up with. It wouldn’t be unfair to dub me a cynic regarding human nature.
I’m perhaps equally cynical. But we’ve seen human nature operate through Our Democracy the last 60 years, and it’s been no bargain.
The system still runs with extremely impressive efficiency. There has undoubtedly been an explosion of degeneracy in the past 60 years and far too much lunacy/idiocy/feminine emotivism substituted for basic reason. However, I think rather than dealing with those problems through an explicit tyranny, we’d be better off reintroducing measures such as social ostracism and good old-fashioned judgmentalism. Let’s face it: men allow women to get away with far too much nonsense these days. If men started writing off the problematic women, the problem would begin to solve itself, no overt tyranny required. As the accountable sex, it’s incumbent upon… Read more »
Thoughtful option. The Left, being feminist women mostly, will respond to male ostracism and judgmentalism; they hate these.
But you’d have to break the cohesion of the Herd first and shock them out of the old (feminine) way, into the new (masculine) way. That means consequences for doing evil.
Otherwise, they’ll re-form the Herd quickly and shelter there, gaining power.
The left for a long time was mostly men. Women in public political structures exist mostly in your generation, and the enthusiasm for it is relative contained to Boomers and Gen X. Women don’t respond particularly well to male ostracism/judementalism. It merely turns into cat fights. Such an action itself is effeminate in a man. Masculinity involves the difficult doing that provides for the whole family.
Now, I’m not necessarily calling for tyranny. But failing a rightwing tyranny, how do we change the culture and institutions in such a way that it is possible to reintroduce accountability, decency and sanity? Note that we arrived at the present lamentable pass via Our Democracy, not tyranny. Perhaps the present is the ineluctible outcome of democracy, real or apparent.
The “left” screeches because that’s what the left does, but since 2020 they’ve lost a critical mass of oligarchical support (for whatever reason). So that now it’s largely toothless screeching, whereas for a while there it was actually something to be feared. This one baizuo I know, who left me speechless in 2022 (I think it was) when she told me that we live in a right wing dystopia, today could have more of a point. Not that we do, but that there is more substance today to back that claim than there was then. Whether or not “our” oligarchs… Read more »
In a world where every politician, CEO, physician, judge and NFL coach was a nuggra or a deviant, and the only white people alive were wearing shackles or in dungeons, the Leftist would still believe she lives in a righwing dystopia. These people are disturbed mutants. Nothing more, nothing less.
“but since 2020 they’ve lost a critical mass of oligarchical support”
If you are the ones rigging the vote, you know how the actual vote really is. Perhaps they’re trying to get in front of something they’ve suppressed for a long time. We all talk about how the media lies, well perhaps they know that level of lying isn’t possible anymore and still get people but all the devoted to believe?
One man’s dystopia is another man’s utopia.
Yep, one mans freedom fighter is another mans terrorist. The first time i thought of this was watching the movie Red Dawn and then thinking about our war on terror. Why is it right for us to fight back to protect our “homeland” but terrorism when others do it?
The sine qua non of terrorism is the purpositive slaughter of non-combatants. And it applies equally regardless of who’s doing the slaughtering. But this is not to say that military conquest of nations–the neocon/BFE stock in trade–is any less repulsive.
I agree with the general definitons. Alas, the real world of combat and other violence rarely allows clear-cut distinction. It make give one the warm fuzzies to have lofty ideals and think that only the bad guys wear black hats. Limited warfare, the kind with clearly-defined militaries battling each other and (for the most part) leaving the civilians uninvolved went out of style by the 19th century — to the extent it ever existed at all. Ideals of gentlemanly warfare are quickly proven wrong, whether it’s the small child bearing a hand grenade running at your position, or the need… Read more »
“The sine qua non of terrorism is the purpositive slaughter of non-combatants”
You mean, Hiroshima?
Dresden?
Terrorism is generally considered to be an act of the weak against the strong. Either they have the inability to strike military targets so they attack soft targets, or more pejoratively, they hold human life so cheap that they don’t scruple at slaughtering innocents. In this respect, Hiroshima might not qualify as terrorism even though the liquidation of non-combatants was the primary object if not the objective.
Terrorism = deliberately targeting civilians to achieve a political goal. Whether that’s on a Pan Am flight, in a Moscow theater, or at Dresden. Freedom fighters are freedom fighters. Terrorists are terrorists. Although some people might lie to confuse the two.
I run a hobby page with a reasonably large membership. Today I posted a story about the Houston Texans threatening to leave if they don’t get a billion dollars worth of improvements to their 23-year-old stadium. The fact that we have people in government so stupid as to shovel taxpayer money to billionaires for frivolous things like making their Taj Mahal even more Taj Mahal-ier is absolutely ludicrous. (The Cleveland Browns are doing something similar, but I’m a little more sympathetic since they want a dome. I still think trashing a 20-year-old outdoor stadium is a waste, though.) But a… Read more »
Your comment is food for thought, especially when our team has prominent billionaires on it, whether we like it or not
But how does the average Houstonian feel about it? I get the sense that most AINOians would rather subsist on rice cakes and prune juice than do without their favorite NFL team. Gotta face it–mass stupidity is a huge part of what killed America, and it may be the chief impediment to salvaging something respectable from the shitshow.
The regime takes an interest in seeing that the circuses go on. I don’t know if “stupid” is the word I’d use to describe it. The franchises are conditioned to make demands for money because they usually get it.
Honestly, anyone who has grand ideas in my opinion is disconnected from reality. I foresee a future of declining resources, conflict for the remaining resources, a declining standard of living, and strife. No on in the current age has a very clear picture of themselves because 99% of our lives are lived in abstraction. The future looks like the past, with random plagues ginned up by the elites because they think those are a more “humane” way to shrink the population and draw out the timeline resources will last.
This is a very wise comment. The real action is day-to-day, where the Grand Theorists don’t see it, and where the proles need to pretend they’re Grand Theorists to distract from the dirt.
I absolutely think you are right about the birthrate. I’ve resisted this conclusion for years. But it’s a drawdown. They are absolutely doing it. I just wish they’d send you a letter or something saying “we know you know, we’re sorry everyone around you calls you insane, but that’s the price of knowledge.” Or a t-shirt.
There is little doubt that the ascendant elite are on Team Depopulation, but the dying Old Guard still seems keen on flooding the West with the Third World. It is a true case of pick your poison, sans the gimme t-shirt, but it is easier to see whites surviving in the West in truncated fashion with the new people calling the shots, not that this is their endgame.
Well i assume the elites have “grand ideas” and i don’t expect them to work. Unless someone finds a denser even cheaper form of energy that is as safe as oil, my visions will play out. But that doesn’t mean the elites will remain on top. I understand their thinking to a degree. They see White westerners as spoiled, and in lots of ways i agree with them but they’re still my people and i have an old belief in loyalty that many lack today. Old Chinese proverb or curse: May you live in interesting times. The times are most… Read more »
Team Depopulation is Team White Depopulation.
That, but we seem to lose sight that depopulation—with the exception of Africa—is already baked into the cake and will occur anyway. The problem is two-fold. One, some elites can’t handle depopulation, and two other elites like Gates can’t wait! They’ll be a drastic decline in world population by the turn of the century, especially if we turn off the aid to Africa. 9B is the peak we’ll reach.
That’s been the case, but the Tech Bros actually “don’t see color” and are willing to slaughter dusky folks right along with everyone’s favorite object d’hate.
The rest don’t matter. We created the only surplus that allowed them to grow, they’ll collapse when we’re gone. Asia, though, is iffy.
I independently arrived at the Opposite Theory about 20 years ago. Like everyone else I watched the left make promises and deliver the exact opposite – but I wrote that off as stupidity and incompetence on their part, whereas the Dissidents seem to ascribe it to deliberate malice. I wonder if it’s not both?
I have a theory that is sort of an NRX style “just so story” but I think might have some truth to it which is that I think liberals behave like the tribe. Julie Kelly has mentioned how in interviews with the prospective jurors in DC, the often say that they don’t view Trump voters as americans or people they would want there children to marry. Isn’t that kind of like how j— view iranians? Other examples might be how liberals in places where there not the majority often act like spies or as representatives of a diaspora. A shitlib… Read more »
As a mid-tier boomer (I hate to admit) I cannot stand these old brain dead ex-hippie F’s of my generation. Rote chanting points lapped up from the former legacy media. No apparent critical thinking skills when it comes to “democracy”, the US government or especially Trump. They cannot possibly die off soon enough.
and no sense of humour
The Tea Party was soon absorbed into the GOP Blob to be neutered. The same fate happened to the occupy Wall Street movement, absorbed into the Democratic half of the Blob.
Good point. But whereas the Tea Party disappeared leaving no trace, the Blob, after engulfing Occupy, moved in Occupy’s direction. This was most apparent in the Blob’s corporations.
For some reason our guys have decided to go along with the lie that Occupy was a co-opted or destroyed populist economic protest, a threat to finance (and/or the Jews) that they thwarted with reactionary “wokeness,” etc. Exactly wrong. Occupy was a memo to corporate re: social organization, a model society founded on anti-whiteness. “The left” is the etiquette arm of the regime. Forgetters need to go back and watch some film. E.g., why do we know what “progressive stack” means? Because it was the organizing principle of the Occupy teach-in, the new HR handbook made public. The spike in… Read more »
The great men of this age may not be so great in the sight of our God.
It seems that some of our great men of our age idea of serving mankind might come from the episode of the Twilight Zone called ‘To Serve Man’.
It’s a cookbook!
LOL!
Great reference! Twilight Zone was pretty hit-or-miss overall, but “To Serve Man” completely earned its classic status. One of the all-time best twist endings!
Reality requires the suspension of disbelief.
Much like the forever war between the Neocons/Paleocons and Russia in whatever form. That has become an ideology as well.
We have always been at war with Russia (or was it Eastasia?).
It’s Eurasia.
Globohomo is at war with Eurasia. Globohomo has always been at war with Eurasia.
I wish I had a snappy uniform instead of this World of Warcraft account.
These efforts to repeat what worked in the past affirm it.
“Failed efforts” but that is implicit. It is amusing to watch senators and congressmen stand in front of X bureaucracy shaking their fists in the name of the people while one or two dozen people “protest” in solidarity. I knew much of it was astroturf but about all of it is. To those who said eliminate/marginalize about one or two thousand people and this ends–and whom we dismissed–so sorry. Even freakshows had some dignity in that there was an actual audience for them.
The hammer is coming. My advice though is that if you live in an area with high levels of Federal workers, that you start thinking about how the coming recession will impact your business. I don’t mean that like you should fight the cuts. I mean it like you need to diversify.
Trump is swinging for the fences on government workers and contractors.
Fantastic. The closing paragraph in particular. The next step, Z Man, is the one into quietude. Leave the Crusade behind. Because it’s not a Crusade. It’s just an image in our mind.
Too negative. Z-man continues to amaze and will do so, even if there remains but one who listens. He has not reached his ultimate potential.
Yes, negative. Via negativa. The only path.
So uh … the Matrix, right?
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There you went and did it … now I’m trying to image the snappy new uniform of the MAGA police.
So many great visuals in today’s post.
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